She Can Still Do It To Me!!

[gness]

My mother!! She has gone from completely bed bound, near death's door with dementia to....completely bed bound, fit as a fiddle with dementia...I think.

Today I sat by her bed til she woke....she looked up and said...
Is that you, Gness?
Yes...I replied....It is, Mum...pleased she recognised me.
Hmmm...said she.....You've put on a bit of weight, haven't you?

I hope she meant since birth and not since last week... :-(

[grasscarp]

Well. There you go. Always something unexpected. Pleased she is fit.

[DTCwordfan]

That's it, gness, they creep up on you, like demented asps and swallow you whole, you then go down their alimentary canal to be ejected like a black Bic biro, well, in their minds!

It's all part of the torture they inflict!

[Nibble]

Sorry about this, gness, but LOL.....
It's an improvment though isn't it (I think)..

[carolegif]

At least she still knows who you are! My Mum used to say I put on weight before she had the Altzheimers!

[lady-janine]

lol gness.

used to make regular visits to my mother 360+ mile drive, she opened the door and said "my god you've got fat" thanks mum. no demetia to excuse it.

[gness]

I suppose having tortured me for sixty three years I'm used to it.... but I'd rather she imagined me slim and lithe.....as I do....

Must admit it made me smile, Nibble....tomorrow I may laugh....☺

[DTCwordfan]

Well, unless you have put six stone on since we met for lunch, I wouldn't exactly call you fat - anything but! Bloody Mums sometime and their preoccupation on weight, either too little or too much.

[gness]

A little because of the lack of walking, DT...but it's going now...
I recall the following conversation once when she arrived for dinner...she looked at me and said....Are you getting fat?
No, Mum....I'm very poorly...I have to go in next week for a hysterectomy.

A hysterectomy!!!! There you go again....letting the family down with all this new fangled treatment....The church won't like it....she said.....Your gran had eighteen children with no bother...what are you thinking of!!!

Gran died having the eighteenth....I said.

That's as maybe....she tutted....but she was fine with the first seventeen... you only have the two....two....and now all this fuss and no more!!!

[DTCwordfan]

That is perversely funny!

[gness]

I know, DT.......it is, and she never much liked the grandchildren she did get.... ☻

[lady-janine]

gness I think our mothers were twins at birth and then separated to torture two families.

[gness]

Well thank god they weren't quads, LadyJ....☺

[sunny-dave]

My Gran was prone to similar cutting remarks - to the point where my Grandad upped sticks and ran away to New Zealand.

He was rumoured to have married again - without bothering to tell my Gran, who would presumably have killed him ... I must get one of AB's tame ancestralists to research all this one day.

[gness]

Blimey, Dave...my mad great gran...the one with red hair who drank gin ran away and left her husband with the seven children....maybe we are related by runaways....☺

[jim360]

"I suppose having tortured me for sixty three years I'm used to it...."

That's terrible! Imagine being tortured by your Mum since 30 years before you were born...

[2sp_]

Sounds like my Granny and my own mother.

I wonder if I will morph into them in later life?

[pixie373]

Oh dear! But next week she might think you've lost weight? Xx

[gness]

Jim...you need to have a word with Dave about how to flatter a lady...☺

Next week she'll probably think I'm her mother as she did last week....

[jim360]

I know, SD's so bad at flattery. I can teach him loads, eh?

[gness]

Think Peter may be on the case, Jim.....☺☺☺